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Hundreds killed in Syria gas attacks

FXSYRIAGALLERY

Thu 22 Aug 2013

A woman who survived from what activists say is a gas attack vomits as she takes shelter with other civilians inside a mosque in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus. Photograph: Mohamed Abdullah/Reuters

Syrian activists inspect the bodies of people they say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region, in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus. Photograph: Bassam Khabieh/Reuters

People lower the body of a victim, of what activists said was a gas attack, into a grave during a funeral in Hamoria area, in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. Photograph: Bassam Khabieh/Reuters

A girl feeding from a bottle, as a man affected by what activists say was a gas attack breathes through oxygen mask, at a medical center in the Damascus suburbs of Saqba. Photograph: Bassam Khabieh/Reuters

Syrian refugees, fleeing the violence in their country, wait to cross the border into the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Photograph: Thaier al-Sudani

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A man creates a placard next to mock corpses during a protest in front of the United Nations building in New York. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

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Lebanese and Syrian civilians take part in a candlelight vigil in solidarity with Syrian civilians killed by a gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus, in front of the offices of the UN headquarters in Beirut. Photograph: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters

Amina, a Syrian-Canadian, holds a mock corpse covered in Syria's flag during a protest in front of the United Nations building in New York. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

Lebanese and Syrian civilians take part in a candlelight vigil in solidarity with Syrian civilians killed by a gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus, in front of the offices of the UN headquarters in Beirut. Photograph: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters